Picnic at Flatlands

Picnic at Flatlands is a video on a poetic and explorative walk in and around Værløse Flyvestation, once an airbase that since has become a real estate developer wet dream, while some has been short-term rental workspace and some left abandoned. With two characters, one real and one 3D generated, the work walks us through these settings both the natural, domestic and hyper-real animated, quietly exploring while moving between them. The video acts as a backdrop for the artist’s continuing investigation of the transaction between our mundane, monetary desires and our need to connect with something sanctuary or natural. In fetishizing the idea of this ‘something’ it becomes an object – a place we bring the domestic into, controlling, regulating and eating on a blanket in it.

Year

2023

Director

Erdal Bilici

Duration

9 min